Favorite guitar players not named......

Most of mentioned guitarists here are named and mentioned all overover the news and everyone in the world knows them.

Rick Derringer?
Pat Tavares?

They're world's known ones...

Tonerager58 mentioned great list of unknown and underground guitarists.

Not sure if anyone mentioned Mark Ribot who used to accompany Tom Waits... Speaking of Tom Waits as multi-instrumentalist and guitarist as well. Oh well!.. 

Here's a couple more.

Lee Ritenour
Melvin Taylor
John Scofield
Brian Setzer
Clarence White

Alex Skolnick
Akira Takasaki

Electric - you know who

Acoustic - Paco de Lucia

The dual guitarist Marty Wilson-Piper and Peter Kopes of the Australian band The Church have a unique sound with great interplay.  The best live guitar band I have seen.  

 Reg Smithies and Dave Fielding of the 80s post punk band The Chameleons U.K.   

Johnny Marr
Will Sargent-Echo and the Funnymen
Robert Smith-The Cure